People say that reading for pleasure helps people to develop imagination and better language skills than watch TV. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
There has been a great debate about the benefits of pleasure reading and watching TV. While some people think that television programs are better for one’s improvement in creativity and language skills, I completely agree that the thinking capability and linguistic competence of a person are better developed by reading.
On the one hand, despite there are some channels that can trigger their viewer’s imaginative thinking such as National Geographic or Discovery Channel, most television shows only give vivid images and visual effects which make viewers absorb information passingly. Since no extra effort in thinking is needed, people who watch TV a lot will most likely be lazy to conceptualize any originality in the information. Moreover, the languages used on TV are also mostly informal and straight forward, in tune with the reads to deliver the message quickly. Therefore, while the listening skill might be improved after prolonged exposure to the TV, not much else can be developed, linguistically.
On the other hand, reading for pleasure, as an active method of knowledge acquisition, allows people to create and memorize concepts more clearly. First of all, the text format contains a little illustration, they deliver the writer’s idea though words and phrases. As a result, readers are pushed to convert words and sentences into images and motion pictures in their minds. For example, Grimm’s Fairy Tales has allowed children to fantasize and use the creativeness to construct their representation of reading also gives people a chance to expose the languages better. There are many books which are not written in our mother tongue can develop a strong formal and proper. Besides, many studies have shown a strong linkage between time spent reading and word improvements.
In conclusion, reading books by far superior to watching TV in terms of creation and language development because reading gives people total control of their minds. In an information-filled world, the ability to control your thoughts is the key to improve yourself.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, moreover, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1751.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 326.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37116564417 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87461940297 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 176.041082164 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.634969325153 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.8508949404 49.4020404114 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.071428571 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2857142857 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.64285714286 7.06120827912 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.27568058298 0.244688304435 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0854963733774 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076120588667 0.0667982634062 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175784621005 0.151304729494 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0602656582635 0.056905535591 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.